Ms. Cornwell, in her lead character of Dr. Kay Scarpetta, has created a forensic force. To stand against the evil that criminals do, she put together a team of exceptional crime fighters with the doctor and Captain Pete Marino, the latter being the Doc's counterpoint. In this story the team's main antagonist is a cruel serial killer named Temple Brooks Gault who kills and tortures with impunity through most of it. The story follows the blood and gore trail in red and gooey detail.
With technical elements in the various people's personalities, the development of the crimes, the layout of the crime scenes, and how the crimes were solved, the story has a magnetism to it that pulls the reader into it. One's interest is such that the page turning in automatic, that is, the reader (myself) was not aware it was happening. (Good books are like that.) If one likes crime dramas - thrillers in this particular instance - then this is highly recommended for them.
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